Texas Republicans watched other states' election integrity units fail and essentially said, 'Hold my beer.' (via MaddowBlog)
Texas Republicans are laying the groundwork to move quickly on a number of new changes to the state’s voting laws, including a proposal to create an election police force like the one Florida enacted before the 2022 midterms. ... Republican-authored Texas bills, such as HB 549 and SB 220, propose creating a system of state “election marshals,” who would investigate allegations of violations of election and voting laws and file criminal charges when warranted.
When Arizona Republicans created an election integrity unit, for example, the idea was to ferret out evidence of voter fraud in the state. It was a spectacular failure: As a Washington Post And why, pray tell, did the absence of fraud “deepen suspicions”? Because of a ridiculous partisan dynamic:Republicans created election integrity units to find elusive evidence to bolster the conspiracy theories they already concluded were real.
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